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F. H. POWERS.

WITNESSES' INVENTUR N4 PETERS. Phnwmnogmphar, washington. D. C.

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P. POWERS.

SHIRT.

Patented July 19, 1887.

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F. H. POWERS,

SHIRT. No. 366,685. Patented July 19,1887.

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P. H'. POWERS.

SHIRT.

No. 366,685. Patented July 19, 1887.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR @5MM/ZIM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. POVERS, OF PETERSBURG, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES XV. REYNOLDS AND DAVID H. KELLYER, OF SAME PLAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part ci' Letters Patent No. 366,685, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed Juno 17, 1886,

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. PowEns, of Petersburg, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specificalion.

My invention relates to the manner of mak ing and cutting the blank forms from which shirts are produced; and it has for its object to simplify the art, reducing the number of pieces, and to make the shirts more durable by reducing the number of seams by which the parts are put together.

My invention consists (as will be more fully described. hereinafter in connection with its illustration) in the combination, with a shirt body having the usual back-slit opening, of a placket cut from the same material as the body, having the form of half of a yoke, half 2O of one side of a front re-enforce, and a facing for the overlap of the backslit opening, and another placket-piece cut from the same nia terial as tbe body, to havethe forni of the opposite half of the yoke, the opposite half of the front re-enforce, and also the form required to make the outer facing of the slit underlap and the inner facing of the slit overlap.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are four plates of drawings, containing eight figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them.

Ot' these illustrations, Figure l shows the completed shirt, with the bosom-front turned toward the sight. Fig. 2 shows the shirt with the bosom, front re-cnforce parts, and yoke parts connected, but with the sides not closed or sewed up or the sleeves put in. Fig. 3 shows a cross-section taken on the line a" x of Fig. 2. Fig. i shows a crosssection taken on the line x2 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 shows a cross-section taken on the line x of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 shows a blank form or placket cut from the material in a single piece to produce onehalf'of the yoke, one-half of the front revenforce, and the outer facing of the overlap formed at one side of the backslit. Fig. 7

shows a single piece or placket out from the material to form an opposite half of the yoke, an opposite half of the front re-enforce, and

the inner facing of the slit overlap and the outer facing of the slit underlap. Fig. 8 shows a modification, with the shirt-body cut in a single piece from the fabric.

The several parts of theshirt thus illustrated are designated by letter-reference, and the method of connecting them is described as follows: f

The letter S indicates the shirt-body, which may be made in a single piece, as shown at oo Fig. 8, or made in two parts and united beneath the yokefacing, as indicated by the dotted line z z of Fig. 2.

The letter B designates the bosom, N the neck-opening, and d the usual back-slit.

The letter I indicates a placket or piece cut from the fabric embodying the yokeform Y at one side of the neckband, between the latter and the sleeveseam, embodying, also, one-halfof thei'ront re-enforce R and the outer 70 facing, F, ofthe overlap O.

The letter P2 designates another placket or piece cut from the material, to have the form Y2 of half the yoke, the form It2 of half the front re-enforce, and the form of the outer facing, F2, of the undcrlap U, and the inner facing, F, of the overlap, when said placket is folded transversely at m. A

rlhe parts are connected as follows: The placket or piece P' is attached to the shirt- Si:A front between thc bosom and the latter by stitching, (indicated at a,) and on its curved lines to the shirt-body at the front at a, and at the sides of the said placketpiece F', within the sleeve-scams D. At the back of the shirt S5 said placket on its curved line is sewed to the shirt-body at a, and at a* to the shirt-body, so as to overlap one side, e, of the back-slit d, to form the overlap, with the lower tab end,

T, of said placket or piece P also attached to 9o the shirt-body below the slit at ai.

The placket or piece P2 is attached to the shirt-front between the bosom and the latter by stitching, (indicated at a",) and ou its curved line to the body, as indicated at al, and later- 95 ally at the sleevesearn D2. This placket is attached on its vertical edge to the side cl of the slit d throughout the length of the latter tothe shirt-bod y at a, and is then folded transversely, as at m of Fig. 7, turned up, and Ico sewed upon each edge to the inner face of the overlap O. As thus attached, the front reenforee, the yoke, and the slit stay and facing vare produced from but two pieces of material,

and several of the seams and connections usually made in shirts are avoided. By reducing the number of seams the chances of their ripping when worn is avoided. The usualgathers required at the back and frontto give eontonr to the yoke are just as well put in as where the yoke is made in separate pieces. By making the body in one piece an additional advantage is gained.

I am well aware that the yoke parts, the reeuforce parts, and the faeings for the overlap and underlap ent separately are old and wellknown shirt parts, and that my invention is limited to cutting in continuity these parts from a single piece for each side of the shirt, and thereby avoiding the production of the several seams which their union requires when eut separate] y.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The combination, with the shirt-body S, having the neck-'opening N and back-slit d, of the placket P', in a single piece, having the yoke-for|n part Y, the reeenforee-part form R', and the outer facing, F', of the overlap, said placket being attached to the shirt-body,

as described, and the placket or piece P2 in a' tached to the shirt-body in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a shirt, theeombination, with the body S, having the back-slit d and neckopening N, of the placket or piece P', in a single piece to form in continuity one side part of the yoke, one side part ofthe front reeuforee, and the outer facing of the slit overlap, and the placket or piece P2 in a single piece, to form in continuity the opposite side part of the yoke, the opposite side partof the front re-ent'orce, the inner facing of the slit overlap, and the outer facing of the slit underlap, with said placketpieees attached to the shirt-body, as shown and described.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 29th day of April, 1886, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names 'are hereto written.

FRANK H. POWERS.

Witnesses:

GHARLEs S. BRINTNALL, W. E. HAGAN. 

